Saint Sebastian Bound to the Column
probably 1498/1499
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10.9 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3476
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 61, state i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
unidentified collector (Lugt 365); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no.
1999
Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1999.
Bibliography
1932
Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 25.
Inscriptions
in plate, lower left, on sheet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 60; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.11352; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B56 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: gi [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: MA [underlined] / MJ [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 31 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: YD [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B56
Markings
FB 1602 (Lugt 365), verso, in graphite
Watermarks
unidentified bulbous cruciform
Wikidata ID
Q7402165